Justice Dept. will review Big3 complaint over Fox RSN sale

The Justice Dept. is giving a look to a complaint from Ice Cube's Big3 basketball league about the bid process for the Fox regional sports networks being sold by Disney (NYSE:DIS), its antitrust chief confirms.

Big3 has been a potential player for the networks as other big bidders have shaken out or combined. And it believes Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) has interfered with its bid in an effort to help an offer from Liberty Media (NASDAQ:FWONA), with which Charter has a financial relationship.

"I've seen the reports of the allegations," Delrahim says. "Certainly when there's allegations of corruption of a bidding process and an auction, it's something that raises issues for us to look into, to see if there's actual credible evidence."

Recent reports have Sinclair Broadcast Group (NASDAQ:SBGI) as a leading bidder, possibly with the help of Amazon.com and maybe even Major League Baseball as it works toward a $9B all-cash bid for the non-YES RSNs.